Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) of
the UK for support of our research in engineering for manufacture, including research under
grant number GR/J97922 concerned with probabilistic design and process capability analysis
and under GR/M53103 and GR/M55145 on the Designers’ Sandpit project. Also, we are
greatly indebted to our industrial collaborators on the various EPSRC projects, not least
Phil Baker, Graham Hird, Duncan Law and Brian Miles while at CSC Manufacturing Ltd,
and to Richard Batchelor, formerly of TRW.
We are immensely grateful to the engineering students and researchers at the Universities of
Bristol and Hull, who have been involved over many years in supporting the research in
engineering for manufacture. In addition, special thanks are given to Bob Swain for help in
the preparation of many of the diagrams used in the Handbook and to Nathan Brown for his
research in joining process selection.
K. G. Swift and J. D. Booker
September 2012

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